John Minchinton introduces a programme of music on gramophone records
Items include the String Quartet No. 2, and the song-cycle' The Heart s Assurance'

A comedy by Moliere
(1668)
Translated by John Ozell
Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Martyn C. Webster
Incidental music composed and conducted by John Hotchkis Characters in order of speaking:

Cor de Groot (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Karl Rankl
Part 1

A group of talks on some aspects of contemporary French life
4-The Present Phase in the French Revolution by Donat O'Donnell

Part 2

W. G. Hoskins , Reader in Economic History in the University of Oxford, talks about Geoffrey Grigson 's Freedom of the Parish and M. W. Beresford 's The Lost Villages of England.

Robert Fayrfax
Mass: Tecum principium sung by The Deller Consort:
Eileen McLoughlin. Alfred Deller
Alexander Young. Eric Barnes and Norman Platt
The Ambrosian Singers
Directed by Denis Stevens
From St. Albans Abbey
(BBC recording)
Second of a series of six programmes arranged by Denis Stevens

andUthe Continental Traditions
Basil Taylor talks about some of the differences between English and Continental painting as revealed in the present exhibition, European Masters of the Eighteenth Century, at Burlington House.